YEREVAN, January 26, 2011, AUA “Manoogian” hall: the new website of the American University of Armenia Digital Library of Armenian Literature (Digilib, www.digilib.am) was officially announced.
At the beginning the Honorary President of American University of Armenia Harutyun Armenyan presented the history of the Library since 1999.
The new website and its structure were presented by the founder and the academic director of Digilib Merujan Karapetyan, who also mentioned a number of important innovations and upgrades in their work since 1999. While presenting the project he mentioned that the Library now contains approximately 2000 works of more than 650 authors.
The Library is already enriched by the armenological works of 150 authors, among whom Ghukas Inchichyan, Ghevond Alishan, Nerses Akinyan, Ghevond Tayan, Garegin Hovsepyan, etc.
The Library is unique by its metadata, bibliographic references and digitization of the Armenian Academic journals (“Bazmavep”, “Hayrenik”, “Handes Amsorea”, “Sion”, etc.).
There are three kinds of access to the texts, books and articles at www.digilib.am
1. free access
2. by subscription only
3. paid download of specific texts, books and articles (without the need of subscription).
The website is now working on beta mode. More details with full description about navigation through DIGILIB will be posted on ARMACAD soon.
The “Digital Library of Armenian Literature” was founded in 1999. The digitization and the online access to the Armenian texts gave a new life to the Armenian Studies. The use of information technologies helped to create specific and professional Armenological databases. At the same time, the digital technologies gave the opportunity to directly communicate with personal cultural heritage and to avoid the centralization of Armenian Studies in the libraries.
During 2007-2008 “Turpanjian Family Foundation” funded the digitization of 1850-2000 Western and Diaspora Literature (hundreds of works of 75 authors). In 2009-2010 the new website of the library was created by the contribution of the same foundation.
The Armenian Digital Library is a database of Armenian texts in the worldwide digital libraries’ system. It is also a great opportunity of using the Classical, New and Modern rich Literature of one of the oldest nations in the world.
Library consists of three major sections:
5th-18th cc. Armenian Classical Literature
1850-2000 literary monuments of Western Armenian and Diaspora Literature
Armenian Studies
For more information, please contact the Digilib Staff: dlinfo@aua.am
Tel.: (+374)10-512767
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